Top-down or bottom-up effects by fish: Issues of concern in biomanipulation of lakes

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 20-28

  Horppila, Jukka ^a   Peltonen, Heikki ^a   Malinen, Tommi ^a   Luokkanen, Eira ^a   Kairesalo, Timo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMANIPULATION; BOTTOM-UP EFFECT; CYANOBACTERIA; LAKE RESTORATION; PHOSPHORUS; TOP-DOWN EFFECT;

FINLAND, LAKE VESIJARVI;

EID: 0031693401     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100x.1998.00613.x     Document Type: Article

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